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harlowehearse · 3 months

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Hello again!

I just wanted to stop on by and ask some questions on your lovely and creative world building!!

My main thought was how you stated that skin taker is dead, yet in some way still alive? Is it an abysmal thing? Like you can’t fully kill one until they are due to die?

Also I love hearing your headcannons! And would love to hear more of your ideas on abysmals and maybe even how the puppets function, say like if something cut there string?

Keep up the work mate, it’s incredible!

First of all, AWAWAWAWWAWAA thank you!!! I'm glad you like my silly puppet thoughts.

Second of all *points to Skin-taker* I have no clue what the hell that thing is!

I do definitely think he's dead and thats that. I feel the whole "abyssians can't actually die" deal may over complicate thing a bit, he's just undead yknow? Maybe because of necromancy shit but I like things better if it was vague and he was just... *gestures vaguley* like that.

You can kill an abyssian I think but it's really hard, and you'd have more luck banishing them back to the abyss (the realm the abyssal kingdom is found). I've had the idea that if an abyssian is banished from candle cove back to the abyss in their place will be a corked bottle with a spell that can summon them back, and holding onto it is like a curse cuz if you do you'll have the inexplicable urge to open it but also if you just abandon it you're leaving it for who knows to open and unleash.

I've considered that maybe on top of skinning him Poppy managed to banish whatever was left of Skin-taker and after the fight he was just NOT okay in any physical mental or emotional way, so he just threw the bottle out into the ocean and later on Horace was the one to find it. I kinda like and dislike this cuz it gives more distinction between necromancy and summoning as different types of magic, but also I feel candle cove should be kind of.....idk empty? Vague? I feel really detailed and complex world building and lore could disrupt the creepy, liminal, twisted childrens tale vibe it's got going on. But yknow it's still fun to think about.

I don't have any in depth thoughts on how the puppets function and their anatomy or anything, I just really really like the idea of throughout the series them being....surprisingly organic in a lot of ways and it's just never explained and you're left there just wondering "Why can they hear a heartbeat while in the bowels of the ship?" "Why is the sound of crunching bones coming from that plush doll?" "Why can they bleed?" Idk I just like leaving some things up for the imagination.

As for their strings I actually do have a headcannon about them! Only the characters on the show who become aware of the audience somehow can see their strings, but don't necessarily have the power to cut them. Skin-taker can see his and, at least appears not to or is too far gone to mind. He fidgets with them a lot actually, like a kid messing with their shoelace.

Red Mary and Gorger (ManBearPig) are the only characters who can see and also interact with everyone elses strings. Gorger, because as Grimmes sort of insert of himself, is the most aware of the nature of candle cove as a TV show and actually plays a role in keeping things in line, keeping the story going how it's supposed to. I assume if someones strings get cut it's like cutting an unnessecary character from a story. Any trace of them is wiped from the world and just their husk is left. There's a lot of limp, lifeless puppet and doll bodies scattered throughout Gorgers cave. *points to Mary* She's just a terrifying fucking freak. She's burnt her strings she says, and remains despite it.

#candle cove #asks #head cannons

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that-one-enby-ranger · 1 year

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Halt's Playlist Part 2

I'm Something Else by SomethingElseyt - I honestly don't know why this song reminds me of Halt. It just kind of does.

Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver - This reminds me him and his family back in Hibernia, just because of the feel of the song. I hope I'm not the only one with this.

Arlandria by Foo Fighters - This song reminds me of both Halt and Morgarath. I don't really know why. But there is a line in the song that goes: 'YoU aNd WhAt ArMy!' That reminds me of when Morgarath was taunting Halt and pissing him off in The Burning Bridge

The Pretender by Foo Fighters - I guess this is just another song that I just have that feel that it relates to Halt. Also think modern day him would kind of like it.

It's My Life by Bon Jovi - Yes. Yes! YES! This is a very good song for him. Basically any song that is talking about being strong, and courage, and standing up for yourself and all that shit. And getting revenge. All those things remind me of him.

Too Much Love Will Kill You by Queen - Alright so, I feel like Halt's been through a lot of shit. And a lot of it happened when he was still pretty young. I mean, he had to go through his parents fighting, him fighting with ferris, him probably fighting with his parents, Ferris trying to kill him, leaving Hibernia and his family including Caitlyn, and then loosing Pritchard. And he was only around twenty and younger when all that happened. Then he probably had to go through a lot more. This is probably why he would push people away. My head canon is he is scared to get too close to be people because he doesn't want to loose them again. Hence, "Too Much Love Will Kill You.' (Geez I ended up rambling on about that one. I just love that fucking song. And Queen. There will be more Queen songs.)

Livin' On The Edge by Aerosmith - Again, this is one of those badass songs. And he is badass. Living on the edge, as in, he is constantly getting himself into trouble and danger. He is living on the edge. The edge of the entire kingdoms patience. Also side note: I feel like Horace would like Aerosmith.

God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You by KISS I head canon that since Halt likes rock music in modern AU, and he would've grown up in a rich, high class family, obviously, so he probably would of learned to play some instruments, like gutair. It's stupid I know.

Stay Gold by Stevie Wonder - This is because of another one of my modern day AU headcanons. Halt likes reading, and one of his favorite books is The Outsiders by SE Hinton (this definietly isn't just because thats one of my favorite novels.) Him and Crowley bot like it and would talk to each other all the time about the book and movie and characters at the gatherings, leaving Will and Gilan out of the conversation. Crowley even starts calling Halt after one of the characters that he reminds him of. Dallas Tucker Winston. Stay Gold is the song made for the movie soundtrack.

Getting Surreal by The Fratellis - This has the same reason for Dogtown which is also by The Fratellis, and that is just the sound and vibe of the song. I don't know, I just feel like he'd like it.

So a lot of these don't have that good of an explanation, and that might of been because I was watching Edward Scissorhands while writing most of this, so I wasn't focusing properly and it took a long time. The other reason why they don't have good explanations is simply because I don't have an explanation other than the fucking sound.

Hopefully some people agree with me on at least some of these songs. If you don't know them, and want to see what I mean when I say they remind me of Halt in some way or another, I'd reccomend litsening. Especially The Fratellis. They're a good band and they don't have enough love. They are very underated and under appreciated. Just keep in mind that basically all of these songs are rock songs.

If you do end up litsening to them, and you do end up liking them, can you let me know somehow? I just like knowing that people lke the same songs as I do.

Anyways, that's part two, next week I'll post part three.

#halt o'carrick playlist #rangers apprentice #halt o'carrick

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the-meme-monarch · 5 years

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I got r e a l l y into the play I’m doing in theatre so at popular request (ie @ellagracesu’s request) I’m uploading my drawings and headcanons of the characters here! It’s called Midnight Club! a monster spoof of The Breakfast Club

#the art gallery #that bottom page is the headcanons and theyre p much all horace #i play horace!! thats why #take me to go see midnight club #click for better quality #i think? this is from the app

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theme-park-concepts · 2 years

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This is kinda random but damn Hello Dolly! drives me a bit insane. It's a decent enough show - the music and comedy saves it -but eeeeergh it could be utterly spectacular with just like the smallest of changes. The script really reads like a draft - there's so many things that aren't quite set up, or set up but never quite paid off, or set up and paid off just in the wrong moments. There's lots of emotions and motivations that the script sort of implies but doesn't quite actually portray. And just eeeeergh.

It's little things. Like the line about money being like manure and helping things grow. It's a great line, and using it as a sign from Ephram is brilliant. But fuck they set it up 20 seconds before it pays off. It would be soooo much more impactful if Dolly said it way up front in the beginning. She already almost does, she just uses different words. Just set it up then dammit! I promise the audience would remember.

That relates to Horace's whole arc. In theory it SHOULD be Dolly transforming him from a materialistic rich aspiring capitalist to realizing the more important things in life. That's what the story attempts to do, just extremely clumsily. It's afraid to paint him too unkindly in the beginning, and at the end it acts as if he's been generous the entire time. But the idea is there, clearly the point of setting Horace up with the heiress and taking him to the harmonia gardens is to prove to him that luxury and materialism isn't all what it's cracked up to be and fundamentally conflicts with his practical no-nonsense values. The story SHOULD be about this Republican who realizes he's actually a Democrat at heart and never realized it cause he was too busy striving for success he didn't actually need, and what he needed was found family and love and to spread his wealth around.

Similarly with Dolly's arc, the story clearly WANTS to be about Dolly dealing with the grief of her husbands death. Having her change someone the way her husband changed her. Presumably she too was once a rich materialistic woman and Ephram taught her that money was best spent helping others grow and be happy. She sees herself in Horace, sees the innate good struggling to get out, and wants to set it free. She wants to repay the debt she owes her husband. Like clearly that's what the story alludes to, but it's sooo afraid to go there. So instead it just flops around with her constantly manipulating Horace and arguing with him and never makes it entirely clear what they see in each other. You have to read drastically between the lines but it could be cause for such a lovely romance. She's after Horace because she wants to spread his money around but didn't bargain for falling in love. Or something like that. Or she's attracted to him from the beginning, either would work. But pick one and make it clear! Sometimes it seems like she wants the money for herself, sometimes for charity, sometimes it seems it's irrelevant, often it seems she hates him. Pick one and stick with it dammit.

And it needs to be clear why she leaves him by the time so long dearie comes along. It's never clear if she's actually mad at him or is playing hard to get. This should be the point where he hasn't quite made the realization that money isn't everything and he should have an outburst that hurts Dolly, that makes her think "I've had it, I've tried to make you see, but you're too stuck in your head wanting to be waited on by galloping waiters for the rest of your life. Goodbye". And have her actually mean it. So then when they're reunited in the finale scene he can make an actual goddamn apology, explain it was a mistake, explain he's a changed man and she's made him see it that way. Pull out the manure quote as if it's something he's just thought of and BOOM THATS when Dolly falls in love. Fuck it the scenes write themselves. WHY ISNT IT ALREADY LIKE THIS.

And finally the journey of Cornelius and Barnaby, Irene and Minnie. It's probably closest to where it needs to be. My only real complaint is that Cornelius's monologue at the end doesn't quite hit on the themes of the show. It hits a tangent of it instead. Ultimately his speech is about how his life is complete because he once had a wonderful day. And Irene earlier tells Dolly "the world is full of such wonderful things". Like the show WANTS this to be a statement of theme. It wants this to be an explanation of what's going on between Dolly and Horace. That ultimately money doesn't matter, and that enjoying life and love are the things that make life valuable. But Cornelius never fucking connects the dots. He gets sooo close. He says "even if I spend the rest of my life digging ditches". NOOOOO. The line should be "Even if I die penniless!"

Michael Stewart, Jerry Herman you were soooo damn close! Just connect the dots slightly more! You put them all in there, you did all the hard work, you knew what your story was about, you just didn't tell anyone else. It would take one more draft. Just a few line changes here and there and maybe an extra scene or two. That's it! AAAAAAAARGGGGGH. When does this show lose copyright? I'll do it my damned self.

#musicals #musical theatre #hello dolly #story #writing #storytelling

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chonko-the-simp · 3 years

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Lets Ramble about yet another Ranger's Apprentice OC

I'm gonna reuse the name Louella cause I'm in love with the nickname Lou at the moment and am not good at coming up with names. Lou is once again Gilan's younger sister, but not younger by much, maybe a year or two. But once again she wanted to be a Ranger and snuck around to learn with Crowley and eventually was taken as his unofficial apprentice.

The only reason she is unofficially his apprentice is because her father didn't want her being. a ranger and she gave in on the condition she could continue learning from Crowley. Of course Crowley isn't going to just give out secrets of how the Rangers do what they do without good reason, and the reason for him doing this is because it could be very useful having a Ranger other Rangers don't know about.

As far as Gilan knows she is Crowley's assistant, who also sometimes helps the king. Which in a way is true, but she's also the "51st" Ranger of the corps and works wherever it is that Crowley needs her. In the midst of Morgarath being on the move again and Wargals moving and preparing for war princess Cassandra has a visit to Celtica planned. Crowley sees it as an opportunity to see how the Celts are doing on their end, plus add some more protection for the princess, just in case.

This is how she and Cassandra happen across a small party of Will, Horace and Gilan when they escape the wargals. Gilan doesn't say anything about Lou being related to him or the fact that she is at all important. Lou in return doesn't share anything about Evanlyn's identity because she knows it is important that Gilan return to warn of the Celt's plight and if he knew Evanlyn was actually princess Cassandra he would never leave their little group.

Lou and Evanlyn are both stubborn as hell, so when given the chance to learn more of Morgatath's plans they don't hesitate to take it. Lou is a horrible enabler for the princess, Duncan doesn't know this though which is why he allows them to hang around one another. All of this eventually leads to them being captured by Skandians at the bridge. Lou goes absolutely fucking wild when the Princess is threatened and this leads to her needing to be knocked down and knocked over the head a few times before she finally stopped.

She's fucking wild and doesn't take any shit from the Skandians and though the plan is to sell her as a slave she strikes a coord with Erak. She finds an enormous amount of pleasure in not taking any order Erak gives her without argument. It was a long few months in Skandia before Halt and Horace arrived. And once they did she didn't try and hide her training and knowledge from them, Halt already knew of course and was perfectly fine with her input for the battle and all.

When they finally return from Skandia and there is the ceremony to reward them for their bravery in returning the princess safely king Duncan announces her as the 51st Ranger of the corps. Her responsibilities include filling any place that may need filled in the corps and being the escort for the Archers to Skandia every year. She goes and stays a week while making sure that they are settled and well cared for before returning home. That is the extent of her stays but it's enough for Erak to confirm that he's fucking in love with her. She is as well but will never admit it and to a point doesn't realize she is in love with him.

Like, it takes him being an idiot and going on one more raid for her to finally realize. The relief she felt when she finally saw that he was safe even if beaten and tied between two camels was extreme. She continues to be too proud to admit anything though and is like that throughout their imprisonment. Finally when they are freed and Toshak tries to flee she tries to step forward to fight him, and Toshak accepts cause everyone else knows that Erak is in love with her even if she doesn't Before the two can begin fighting though Erak pulls her aside and says something along the lines of sorry but this is my fight and kisses the back of her hand leaving her there somewhat shocked but like thats only the start.

It takes the two of them even longer to do anything more than the one kiss on the back of her hand. And finally finally finally they go from 0 to 100 and just straight up elope. After that Lou keeps her weird life and while all of Skandia knows that Erak married an Araluen woman none of Araluen really knows that Lou is married let alone to the Oberjarl of the Skandians. She also never comes straight out to tell people of the fact that she is married, she'll just casually mention her "husband" in conversations and people will stop dead, staring at her and ask, "wait- did you say husband?" then Lou responds like, "Oh yeah, did I not tell you that Erak and I got married on my last trip to Skandia?" She knows she didn't tell anyone, she just likes seeing them react as though they are the only person who didn't know when in fact she did this to everyone including Crowley and her father. Gilan tried to play it off like he knew that was the plan for her trip when in fact none of it was planned they hadn't even officially been together in any way Erak was just like, "yo, you wanna get married?" And Lou was like, "Lit, lets do it but I'm not waiting a year until I come back or having a giant party like Halt got stuck with." So eloping with the choice with a nice Skandian style party after the fact to celebrate of corse.

#rangers apprentice oc #ranger oc #the rangers apprentice #rangers apprentice

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renegadereshiram · 3 years

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i would like to know More about how bad Cruella is if you can elaborate

okay well we didnt get through the last half hour but thats all you need to know. it bored my mother, who i love dearly, but openly acknowledge that she has the WORST movie taste i do not think she registers the plot of anything

you know abt the dalmation murder. you know they tried to girlbossify her. lemme fill in the gaps.

in the first five minutes of the movie, cruella quotes "i am woman, hear me roar". this is played completely straight

we get a lot of stealing montages, which are then brushed off as cruella gets a job at the villain's department store

you see i actually had the most beef with the villain lady but not bc i didnt like her. i actually did like how blatantly evil she was. what i fucking WANTED was for them to apply that to CRUELLA. christs sake

i didnt hate the costumes tbh. i dont think any of them were sensibly designed but from an aesthetic standpoint? not the worst

the twist that they throw into the movie is what fucking kills any chance of it being redeemable. yall shoulda ended it before there.

what really bugs me is that like. we see the decay of her character, but just before i stopped watching the movie tries to use the twist to both explain why shes being shitty and then abruptly tries to make her nice again?? for the sake of defeating the villain but goddamn i hated it

she monologues at a fountain for three minutes straight and none of it is comfortable

moral of the story, i guess: this movie woulda been better if it was something else. no dogs, no tragic backstory, no ties to disney, just two batshit crazy fashion moguls upstaging each other in increasingly insane ways. in no way should the movie make us sympathetic to either of them, they should just be theatrically evil. that woulda been infinitely more interesting and entertaining of a story. not the pink taxed joker movie we actually got.

and jasper, horace, and their chihuahua (named wink, who i did love) deserved their own movie. they didnt need any part in this, they shoulda been their own characters with their own story.

i didnt watch the ending and i dont care to learn it, i'm just baffled by how this mess got greenlit in the first place. i hope walt is rolling in his grave like a rotisserie chicken. good day sir

#reshirambles

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tarantula-hawk-wasp · 5 years

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Good Omens Ranger’s Apprentice AU

stxrduste replied to your post “I, being a disgrace, did not consider that Rangers Apprentice also has...”

consider. halt is crowley, crowley is aziraphale, this is confusing for all involved

This is not quite that Halt is definitely a long game persona Crowley is playing, but I’m still dithering about which is better, Ranger Crowley is Aziraphale, or is RA Crowley a human that Crowley befriended bc he thought it was amusing that they shared a name and he had to quickly come up with his own human name and thats why it’s Halt (a nearby guard was telling people to “stop” in ye olde timey speak and Crowley panicked.) Originally Crowley was checking on the Old Ranger Corps that he had corrupted into ineffectiveness, but after the first war with Morgarath he gets congratulated by Hell (he really didn’t have anything to do with it, Morgarath was consorting with other demons and possibly some witches to make and use his army but that’s beside the point)

Also the Arrangement was agreed rather earlier

Hell calls him up and is like guess what it’s Antichrist O Clock

Will is the Antichrist (no baby swap just baby dropped off) and is supposed to get his powers later I guess at 16 or 20 or smth (or just age everyone down) either works

Crowley and Aziraphale aren’t actually sure which of the foundling babies from the war is the Antichrist bc multiple showed up around the same time and turnover of nursemaids meant the identity of the babies could have been screwed up so the two of them end up keeping an eye on all of them.

Crowley is doing a long game in the whole Halt Persona and making sure to keep his quota of scaring the locals and creating paperwork to drive bureaucrats mad. (hence the penchant for defenestration) ((and the reputation)) his horse neighs to the tune of Queen songs. Hell definitely wants Crowley to personally mentor the boy (to make sure hes truly corrupt) and he still ends up doing the tower climbing stunt because Crowley likes a kid with the kind of mind to question authority and the initiative to take on the task himself.

Its harder to fit Aziraphale into this, perhaps he’s the cook or one of the child minders, or the horsemaster, or an advisor to Baron Arald or he really is the Ranger Crowley. Will ends up with his own “them” of Alyss, Horace, and Jenny (or cassandra but Jenny makes more sense for some future things) The Hellhound ends up as a scraggily but tough little Pony Will ends up roped into helping an apprentice Witch Finder Newton Pulcifer that Halt and he are escorting and they end up meeting An Actual Witch (who Crowley and Aziraphale have both known about, and finding her harmless and neither particularly demonic or saintly, have tried to divert witchhunter attention from her) and now Anathema (and Newt) are figures in Will’s life too. Being a ranger lets him travel and meet with people, both the worst and best of humanity and let him realize how much difference he can make as just a regular person. So when the time comes Will does not want to destroy what he and the rangers and the barons have been working so hard at and the world does not end. Alyss believes in diplomacy over War Horace appreciates cleanliness and a good constitution after time in Knight School and tells Pestilence where to shove it and of course, Jenny knows the power of a good meal, not just in nutrients but in love and craftsmanship against Famine. Also Crowley/Halt is not actually a good archer. He just wills the arrows to go where he wants. The knife throwing he can do however. This makes it a bit harder when Will needs to learn archery for the career. Cue Crowley frantically begging Aziraphale for books and any information on archery. Somehow he succeeds. mostly by repeating everything Gilan mentioned during his time there. and like Gilan wasn’t his apprentice the entire time, I can’t see Crowley doing that kind of teen rearing commitment for that many years, but he does get roped into finishing Gilan’s training when the Ranger he was training under dies before he finished training and Crowley is the most available ranger. He figures it will be good practice for when he has to personally deal with the antichrist. Crowley is the reason they do the whole pranking thing on the way to the Ranger Gathering.

#crossover #good omens #ranger's apprentice #crowley #will treaty #tbh as far as my crossovers go this is fairly weak #or like messy its not tight to the detials #i really wanted to fit Gilan in here somewhere bc he is my favorite ra character besides halt #my crossovers

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mychemicalimagines · 5 years

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The Walking Marauders (4) Remus Lupin

No Magic. As soon as the dead starting walking, Melissa Potter just wanted to find her family. After waking up from a coma she finds herself in the world of the undead. She goes into the city and finds Remus Lupin. How will they go on in this world? Will they fight together or fight each other??

Tag List: @maraudersandco @itshelaodinsdottirbitch@iluvharrypotter172@rosesarestriped @definethatpotato @la-fille-en-aiguilles @darling-i-read-it

Other chapters are linked in my masterlist in my description

Requests are still open! Please message me or submit an ask to request. If you would like to be tagged please comment on this chapter or message me. Please comment telling me your thoughts on this chapter, or even the story in general. If you would like to see a character in this story please message me and I can see what I can do. Either from Walking Dead or the Harry Potter series.

I didn’t put Charlie, Bill, or Percy in this story. It would just be too many children to keep track of. So the Weasleys only have Fred, George, Ron and Ginny.

Warnings: alcohol consumption and cussing.

I get shaken awake the next morning by Hermione. I forgot about what happened last night so I was shocked to see her in my tent. Wait this isn’t my tent. I look around and notice the shirt Remus was wearing yesterday. That’s right we stayed in Remus’ tent last night.

“What’s wrong Hermione?” I ask sitting up rubbing my eyes.

“I have to use the bathroom.” She says quietly.

“Okay, lets change and I’ll take you to the RV” I say stand a little to change. I change and I look at her. “Are you ready?”

“Yes please,” she puts her arms out to me.

I smile and pick her up stepping out of the tent. Everything is cleaned up from last night. All the tents but mine are packed and put away. I walk over to the Weasley’s RV with Hermione in my arms.

“Morning Mel, Hermione.” Arthur says from the top of the RV.

“Good morning Arthur” I say as Hermione waves. “Is it okay if we use your bathroom?”

“Sure you guys can. Molly and the boys are helping James and Lily with their packing so you can go on inside.” He says smiling at us.

“Thank you,” Hermione says in her sweet voice.

Arthur just smiles at us and we walk inside the RV. After helping Hermione use the bathroom I pick her up and take her outside. I look around for Remus or Sirius but I find Severus first.

“Hey Severus, wheres Sirius?” I ask as Hermione puts her face into my neck.

“Hes with James at the cars packing up. So” He pauses and I give him a look that means ‘hurry up.’ “You are taking care of a kid now?”

“Yeah, got a problem with it?” I question. Before he gets to answer I walk over to the cars searching for Sirius.

I see him standing with Remus at Sirius’ old Jeep.

“Are you guys ready?” I ask them.

“Yeah. Remus just has to put his tent down and were good to go,” Sirius says turning toward me then waving a little at Hermione. She blushes at him and hides her face further into my neck.

“Hey Mel, if you want you guys can ride with me to the CDC,” Remus smiles toward me.

“Hermione what do you think?” I ask her blushing a little. “Do you want to ride with Mr.Remus?” She nods into my neck so I look at Remus and say, “Sure Remus. We’ll ride with you.”

“My cars over there,” He points toward the back of the car area. “Its the green one.”

“Thank you,” I say sweetly.

He smiles and walks over to his tent to start taking it down. I look to the car area to look for his car. For the next hour Remus and I get all of his, mine and Hermione’s stuff into his vehicle. We make sure to put a car seat in there for her. I turn to everyone in the campsite.

“We all ready to leave?” Everyone nods at me. “Lets get going! Remus’ car in first then Sirius’ with the Potters then the RV then the Thomas family. That good?”

“Sounds good to me,” Sirius says nodding at me looking at everyone else. No one complains so we all go to our cars and start driving.

“Mr. Remus.” Hermione says.

“Yes Hermione?” He asks looking into the rear view mirror at her.

“Are you and Mel my new parents?” she asks curiously.

“We are taking care of you but we don’t have to be your parents. Why?” he sneaks a look at me then back at the road.

“Because my mommy and daddy were really mean to me and you guys actually take care of me. I’d rather you be my parents.” She says looking down at her hands.

“We can be your parents but you don’t have to call us mommy and daddy. Remus and Mel are fine.” I say to her smiling. She nods at me and starts playing with a doll she brought with her.

After about 4 hours of driving we pull up to an open gate and Remus slows down.

“This is it,” He says pointing to a sign.

He pulls over to the side of the road and I look at the building. The doors are closed and theres a few walkers around. I get out of the car and look at the other cars. Sirius, Michael and Arthur step out of their vehicles as well. I look at Remus.

“Do you want to survey the area with us?” I ask.

He nods and steps out of the car.

“Hermione.” She looks at me. “I’m going to give you to the Potters so you’re safe okay?” She nods at me and I open the back door and unbuckle her. Remus walks over and takes her out of the car for me. He smiles at me and walks over to Sirius’ car.

I look at Sirius and the others. “Okay were going to see if we can get in or see if someones still here. Do we all have knives” I ask.

Michael and Arthur takes out their knives but Sirius smirks at me and goes to the trunk of his car pulling out his crossbow.

“You still have that thing?” I laugh at him.

“Of course.”

Remus walks back over to us pulling out his knife.

“Alright lets go,” i say walking into the gates and I go straight over to a walker whose back is to me.

I shove my knife right into its head and he falls dead. I run straight to the doors as the other guys take care of the rest of them. I push the buttons that are suppose to open the door but nothing happens. I bang on the door.

“Anyone there? We have women and children. Please open the doors!” Nothing happens. The camera moves so I bang on the door again.

“This is stupid! The doors aren’t going to open!” Severus yells from the open RV door.

“The camera moved!” I snap toward him and I bang on the door again. “Please we need some where to stay!” I yell up to the camera. It moves toward the guys standing behind me and then toward the cars.

“It does move!” Sirius says looking at me.

“Please help!” Remus says helping me bang on the door. I sigh and turn around.

“We should-” I go to say but the doors open up behind me making me turn and its blinding everyone looking at them.

“Is anyone infected?” a voice asks from inside the light.

“No.” I say putting my hand cover my eyes a little so I can see.

“Grab all your stuff and everything you will need. Once these doors close, they will not open again.” the gentleman says.

“You go inside. We got this.” Remus says looking at me. I nod at him and he winks at me and runs toward the cars with the guys. I turn to the gentleman.

“My name is Melissa Potter. Thank you so much for opening the doors.”

“My name is Dr. Horace Slughorn. You guys are safe here. You said you have children?” He asks curiously.

“Yes, I have a daughter. My brother has a son and one of the guys with me has 4 children.” I answer not wanting him to question why Hermione is with me.

He nods and everyone walks up to us.

“This everyone?” he looks around. I turn around and count heads.

“Yeah,” I say taking Hermione from Remus and he puts his hand on my lower back when Severus gets a little close.

“Now I’m not suppose to let you guys in here, so I am going to have to take some blood and do some tests just to make sure.” He says looking at us.

“Thats fine,” I say automatically so he doesn’t make us leave.

He walks into the building and we all follow him. As soon as the last person who was Sirius walks in the building he closes the doors and turns back to us.

“As I told her, my name is Dr. Horace Slughorn.”

“Hi. I’m Hermione” Hermione says to the man. He chuckles and looks at her.

“Hello,” he smiles and then looks at everyone. “Follow me.”

We do as he says and for the next 20 minutes we gave some blood. I sit in the chair after giving blood and Hermione is next.

“I don’t like needles. They look scary,” She says looking at me.

“Its okay. I’m here,” I rub her back a little. Remus kneels in front of her to keep her mind off the needle.

“Okay you guys are done. Lets get some food into you,” Slughorn says standing up.

We follow him into an kitchen area. For the next couple hours, we are eating and drinking when I stand raising my glass.

“I just want to thank our host. For letting us in and giving us a place to stay and food in our tummies.” I smile around the table.

“Booya!” Sirius yells raising his bottle of alcohol. Everyone laughs and raises their classes, cheering with him. I sit back down and Severus looks over at Slughorn.

“I don’t mean to be a party pooper but how come you’re the only one left? Where is everyone else?” He asks.

Remus sighs, “Mood killer.”

Slughorn explains that everyone left or “opted out”. They couldn’t take it. I sigh looking at the kids.

“Alright. How about I show you guys to your rooms.” Slughorn says standing out of his chair. We follow him down a couple halls.“You guys will have to share rooms, and go easy on the hot water.”

“hot water?” Michael asks.

“That’s what the man says.” Sirius says smiling.

We split into groups. The Potters in one room. Weasley’s in one room. Thomas’ in one room and Remus and I in another. Sirius and Severus got their own rooms. Hermione pulls on my pant leg. I look down at her.

“Can I stay with the Weasley’s? Mrs. Molly said they will be playing games.” She asks sweetly. I look over at Molly who nods at me.

“Sure darling.” I pick her up and give her a big kiss on her cheek and put her down. She runs over to Molly and she leads her to their room. I turn to Remus.

“You can shower first.” He says. “I’m get some more to drink.”

“Grab me one please.” I smile walking into the room.

After both Remus and I shower we are sitting on the couch laughing at a story he tells me about his time at the zoo a few years ago.

“Want to play a game?” I ask taking a sip of my alcohol.

“Sure. What game?” He asks turning more toward me putting a leg up on the couch.

“20 questions? Get to know each other more?” I ask.

“Sure. Um. Whats your favorite color?” he asks me.

“Purple.” I blush. “Mainly dark purple. I don’t know why its just a pretty color. Whats your favorite animal?”

“Wolf. They are really smart and only protect their pack. They also howl at the moon a lot and I like the moon. Its bright,” He smiles over at me. “I remember you tell me you were in a coma before all this, what happened?”

“Sirius and I were shooting at some bank robbers in Hogwarts County and we weren’t informed there was 3 guys. I got shot” I pull up my shirt and show him the scar that has formed.

“Wow,” He says leaning over to look at it.

An hour later I look at him, “When was your last relationship?” I ask.

“Um. About 3 years ago. I focused more on my job getting more money to get out of my crappy apartment.” He slurs a little bit.

I look at him and hes looking at me and blushes. I look into his beautiful eyes. Before I realized what I was doing, Remus and I both were leaning forward. Our lips lightly touch. I guess he gain some courage because he presses his lips harder into mine. I lean more into the kiss deepening it more. We pull away and I blush.

The next morning I wake up and notice that I’m in the only one in the room. Remus must have waken up and gone down to breakfast. Holy shit. We kissed last night.

Remus’ POV

I look at my plate Michael served me. I can’t believe I kissed her last night. I’ve always thought she was beautiful and I want to be with her but I don’t even know if she likes me back. I hope she remembers so we can talk about it later. Mel walks into the room and smiles at me and walks over to the empty chair next to me.

“Hey!” She sits down.

“Hey did you have fun last night?” I ask making her think I forgot to see if she remembers.

“Yeah, I don’t remember much but from what I remember I had fun.” She looks at Michael when he hands her a plate. Shit she doesn’t remember. I look down.

We all finish eating and Severus looks at Slughorn.

“So we didn’t just come for the food. What is this? This disease?” He asks.

“Severus,” Mel snaps a little at him.

“No. Come with me and I’ll explain everything.” Slughorn says standing up from his chair.

We go back into the room where we got our blood taken and he explains that we die but then the disease restarts our brain stem. All our memories and stuff die and it only makes us move and eat. I look over at Mel and Hermione who are standing on the other side of the room. I sigh. I just feel so awkward around her now that I know that she doesn’t remember the kiss. I don’t want to tell her and her end up not actually liking me.

Arthur points to a clock that’s counting down on the wall, “Dr. Slughorn, what happens when that clock goes down to 0?” The clock was at 45 minutes and 58 seconds.

Slughorn looks down at the floor,”then the building is going take down everything that is infected with a certain area”

“Great so all the walkers are going to go down right?” Andrea asks smiling at him.

“We’re all infected with this disease.” Slughorn says looking up at her.

“You mean its going to blow up the building?” Severus asks running over to him.

“Yeah,” Slughorn says. I walk straight over to Mel and Hermione wrapping my arms around them. “Thats why I told you the doors aren’t going to open back up.”

“So were going to die?” Mel asks looking at him. Slughorn just nods.

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